PREMIERES WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11 AT 9PM ET/8C ON PBS
A NOVA film produced by Providence Pictures, Co-Produced with ZED and ARTE France. NOVA is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston.
The producers of the PBS science series NOVA and the Embassy of Italy in Washington, DC invite you to a special sneak peek screening event featuring NOVA’s upcoming film,
“Colosseum – Roman Death Trap” (53 minutes) ( more info ) followed by a panel discussion and audience Q & A with experts from the film Including:
Gary Glassman – Producer, Director, Writer, NOVA’s “Colosseum – Roman Death Trap”; President and Executive Producer, Providence Pictures
Katherine E. Welch – Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Director of Masters Studies, Deputy Director, Aphrodisias Excavations, Turkey, New York University
Melanie Wallace – Senior Series Producer, NOVA
NOVA “Colosseum – Roman Death Trap” Premieres Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 9pm ET/8c on PBS – official webpage: click here
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Colosseum – Roman Death Trap
One of the ancient world’s most iconic buildings, the Colosseum is a monument to Roman world order. But this building is more than just an architectural giant – in its heyday it was filled with unbelievable spectacles and 50,000 cheering fans.
In its elliptical arena, tens of thousands of gladiators, slaves, prisoners, and wild animals met their deaths. Ancient texts report lions and elephants emerging from beneath the floor, as if by magic, to ravage gladiators and people condemned to death. Then, just as quickly, the Colosseum could be flooded with so much water that ships could engage in sea battles to the delight of the crowd. Could these legends be true, or are they just myth?
Now, with extraordinary access to one of the world’s most protected world heritage sites, archaeologists and engineers are teaming up to recreate ancient Roman
techniques to build a 25-foot lifting machine and trap door system capable of releasing a wolf into the Colosseum’s arena for the first time in 1500 years. To do it, they will have to decipher ghost-like impressions left on
the crumbling walls of the Colosseum’s basement by the original lifts and then transform them into working plans for construction. Do they have what it takes to replicate the innovation and ingenuity of the Romans?
NOVA “Colosseum – Roman Death Trap” is a NOVA film produced by Providence Pictures. Co–Produced with ZED and ARTE France. NOVA is produced for PBS by WGBH Boston.
National corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Cancer Treatment Centers of America. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the David H. Koch Fund for Science, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.
Gary Glassman
Gary Glassman, Producer/Director/Writer, NOVA “Colosseum – Roman Death Trap”; President and Executive Producer, Providence Pictures
As President and Executive Producer of Providence Pictures, Gary Glassman has produced nearly 50 programs for NOVA, PBS, Discovery, History, National Geographic, BBC, and Arte. Through stunning photography, powerful narrative, inventive animation, and cinematic reenactment, his films translate complicated ideas into simple, compelling stories. His documentaries have won and been honored with nominations for the industries most prestigious awards, including six Emmys, two Writers Guild Awards, the AAA Science Journalism Prize, and Cine Golden Eagle Special Jury Award. Glassman has an MFA in Directing from UCLA’s Department of Theater, Film, and Television.
Katherine E. Welch
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts Interests: Art and archaeology of the Roman Empire in the Republican/Hellenistic and early Imperial periods, especially in Italy but also in Asia Minor and Greece. Major interests in architecture, sculpture, painting, and urbanism, particularly in issues of the patronage and viewer reception of art. Publications on Roman spectator buildings, portraiture, wall painting, and the “neighborhoods” of the city of Rome. Current project on The Aesthetics of Roman War.
Melanie Wallace
Melanie Wallace, Senior Series Producer, NOVA
Melanie Wallace has been committed to public media for over twenty years serving in many different capacities from production assistant and researcher, to producer, director and writer. Currently, she is the Senior Series Producer for NOVA, PBS’s preeminent weekly science series now in its 41st season.
In that role, Melanie is instrumental to all aspects of production and works closely with Senior Executive Producer, Paula S Apsell and Managing Director, Alan Ritsko. During Wallace’s tenure, NOVA has won every major broadcasting award, including Emmy, Peabody, AAAS Science Journalism awards, and the DuPont- Columbia gold baton.
Melanie searches for talent, innovative program ideas, and co-production opportunities. She is the driving force behind the deals brokered with NOVA’s numerous international partners, including the BBC, NDR – Germany, and ARTE France. Another aspect of Melanie’s job is to be NOVA’s ambassador; traveling worldwide to promote the NOVA brand while highlighting the role NOVA plays in the US to enhance science literacy and science education across a variety of platforms in public media. She is frequently asked to lecture and speak about NOVA’s productions at universities and conferences both in this country and abroad most recently in Hong Kong at the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers.
Melanie has served on the Steering Committee of the World Congress of Science and Factual Producers, appeared on panels at the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival, Real Screen and the WCSFP. Melanie has served as a juror for a variety of awards including the News and Documentary Emmys, the Alfred I Dupont Columbia awards, Beijing Science Festival, and the CAID – Athens Science Festival. Additionally, she has served on National Science Foundation grant review panels. Over the course of her production career she has been the recipient of a variety of television awards including the News and Documentary Emmy.
Before assuming the role of Senior Series Producer, Melanie was a staff producer/director, writing, directing and supervising numerous programs and series for WGBH and NOVA. These include Adventure, Odyssey, and The Ring of Truth, as well as Condition Critical: A Forum on American Health Care with TV host Phil Donahue. A complete list of Melanie’s NOVA productions can be found on the NOVA website pbs.org/nova.
Related Links
NOVA: click here
Colosseum: Roman Death Trap: click here
Providence Pictures: click here
PLEASE NOTE: A reservation is required for our events for security reasons. A reservation is NOT a guarantee of a seat. Our venue has limited seating and we will accomodate guests on a first-come first-served basis.
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